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sition must Ivave introduced such to his notice in the colonies 

 and more distant parts of the empire. One, therefore, who 

 had been following the same pursuits with himself from his 

 youth upwards, a sportsman, a military tactician, and a joint 

 friend of Epictetus, was not likely to escape him. Besides, we 

 are assured that he was, on all occasions, sociable in his field 

 amusements, " venationem semper cum amicis participavit ;" 

 and therefore we may suppose that the literary founder of 

 Adrianotherae would gladly avail himself of the earliest oppor- 

 tunity of adding to his personal friends and sporting associates 

 the most accomplished writer and courser of his day. We 

 know how much the pleasure of mtercourse is enhanced by 

 identity of pursuit ; and how strong the hold which innocent 

 amusements, shared with congenial friends, have on our affec- 

 tions ! . 



ov yelp Tis KiVTpuicri. ^afiiis ayprr! epaTitvrjs Oppian. Cyneg. 



avns iKwv Xei^eiev, e^^ei 54 fxiv acnriTO. Seaixd, 



II. vs. 32. 



As to the period of his life at which Arrian may be supposed 

 to have written the Cynegeticus, the inference to be drawn 

 from the meagre paragraph of autobiography in the first 

 chapter, wherein he states his fitness to supply the deficiencies 

 of the elder Xenophon's work, from having been u[A(p) toivtoc utto De Venat. c. 

 viov sa-TTOV^aKcog, xvvi^ys<ria xa) (TTpaTrjylav xa) (yoplav, although it 

 establishes the fact of his early predilection for field sports, yet 

 it rather militates against the idea of the Cynegeticus havino- 

 been written at a very early period of the author's life. How- 

 ever, be this as it may, his patronage of '* the long dogs " con- 

 tinued at the time of his writing this Ubellus ; and his beloved 

 'OpiiYj, uiKVTaTY}, xa» (TO'pMTOLTYi, xu) UgoTuTrj, was then in his Ejusdem c. V. 

 possession, living seemingly in the closest intimacy with his 

 attached and philosophic master, and sharing with Megillus his 

 society at home and abroad, the well-earned recompense in 



